A Maturity Model for Social Responsibility Sergio Vasquez Kaufmann, PMP This year, the standard for Social Responsibility will be finally launched: ISO 26000, considering a lot of good ideas, previous definitions and big efforts previously done about this matter. But, it will not be meant for certification purposes, like ISO 9001, for instance. So, the challenge is: How to determine to which extent a company is (or is not) socially responsible? Questions like: Where a company is now on its way of evolution to a mature state of Social Responsibility? Where it wants to be? When? How to do it? Can different organizations be compared, regarding their levels of SR? These are questions probably yet unanswered. We propose a Maturity Model in Social Responsibility, and also an Assessment Procedure of the current level of SR in an organization. Finally, some ideas about how to answer the mentioned questions are given and some direct relations to Project Management are made.
Sergio Vasquez Kaufmann, PMP
This year, the standard for Social Responsibility will be finally launched: ISO 26000, considering a lot of good ideas, previous definitions and big efforts previously done about this matter. But, it will not be meant for certification purposes, like ISO 9001, for instance. So, the challenge is: How to determine to which extent a company is (or is not) socially responsible?
Questions like: Where a company is now on its way of evolution to a mature state of Social Responsibility? Where it wants to be? When? How to do it? Can different organizations be compared, regarding their levels of SR? These are questions probably yet unanswered.
We propose a Maturity Model in Social Responsibility, and also an Assessment Procedure of the current level of SR in an organization. Finally, some ideas about how to answer the mentioned questions are given and some direct relations to Project Management are made.